Individuals place bumper stickers on their cars as one way of expressing their feelings or opinions toward an issue. The most recent sticker that has been seen on a few cars read: "Why do we kill people, who kill people -- to show that killing is wrong?" That is why I am against capital punishment, no matter who is doing the killing. Capital punishment is a contradicting solution to an even greater problem.

The government justifies capital punishment as self-defense or self-defense for society as a whole. Suppose one applies the same standards to civilians that are had by the government. A civilian at home can legally shoot an intruder, but if the civilian catches the intruder, lock him up in a cage, count down the time that he will die and then shoot him, that act would be considered cruel and inhumane. Most would call that murder. That is what capital punishment is--murder.

One would defend capital punishment as deterrence for other violent crimes, retribution for the victim's family or a less expensive way for de

Opposing the death penalty would seem as though one is making too much of the offender as the victim. On the contrary society is the victim, if death is the acceptable form of punishment used to satisfy the consequences of violent crimes, just as a teenage girl would use abortion as a form of prevention from pregnancy.

Lethal injection consists of three ingredients that play their own role in the execution of the offender. First there is Sodium Thiopental, a lethal dose that sedates the person. Followed by Pancuronim Bromide, a muscle relaxant that collapses the diaphragm and lungs. Finally there is the Potassium Chloride that is used to stop the heartbeat. The process usually takes seven to ten minutes after the lethal injection is initiated, depending on the size of the veins.

aling with offenders. But the death penalty has not shown to eliminate or decrease the amount of capital crimes being committed. Contrary to popular belief, the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to crime. "Expert after expert and study after study have emphasized and emphasized the lack of correlation between the threat of the death penalty and the occurrence of violent crime" (Meador, 69). As for being less expensive than life imprisonment, it has been financially figured out that... "The cost of the apparatus and maintenance of the procedures attending the death penalty, including death row and the endless appeals and legal machinery, far outweighs the expense of maintaining in prison the tiny fraction of criminals..." (Draper, 46). At an economical view, it would be cheaper to imprison an individual in a single h

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